Mickey Rourke called Amber Heard a “gold-digger” in a tell-all new interview with Piers Morgan.
The actor, who worked with Depp on the 2003 flick “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”, was asked about Depp winning his defamation trial against his ex-wife Heard.
Depp sued Heard for $50 million following a December 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post in which she seemingly accused him of domestic abuse, despite not naming him. She countersued the actor for $100 million.
Rourke said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored”: “I’ve known Johnny for many years, but I don’t really know him intimately.”
"I felt bad for somebody trying to get chopped down by some gold-digger."
Mickey Rourke slams Amber Heard as a "gold-digger" after she lost her court case against Johnny Depp. @Piersmorgan | #PiersMorganUncensored pic.twitter.com/UQslFe5B4H
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) July 12, 2022
“All I could say is, I was in a situation one time where I got blamed for something that I didn’t do,” the former boxer, who was arrested on suspicion of spousal abuse in 1994, explained.
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Rourke continued, not revealing the incident he was talking about, “It cost me movie jobs for several years and it [gave] me a bad reputation. And finally the truth came out, but the truth came out after I lost movies and I lost jobs.
“And so I felt bad for somebody that is trying to get chopped down by some gold-digger, you know?”
“You think that’s what she was?” Morgan questioned, as Rourke swore before correcting himself: “Absolutely.”
Rourke’s latest comments come after he took a swipe at Tom Cruise for playing “the same effing part for 35 years” in a previously released clip from the same Morgan interview. See more in the clip above.
